qīng
noble
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
qīng
noble, high officer; high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)
Most common words with 卿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Secretary of State | ||
honorific (old) | ||
to bill and coo (idiom) | ||
Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty | ||
Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʰraŋ | khjaeng | qīng | minister (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2814% of movies
3005th most common character in movies
2029th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+537F |
Shuowen | “卿，章也。六卿：天官冢宰，地官司徒，春官宗伯，夏官司馬，秋官司寇，冬官司空。从卯，皀聲。” |
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